Reviews on all things Austen
Posted in Contemporary Authors, Dreadful on Nov 30th, 2009
I bought this book based on the review in the Jane Austen Regency World magazine – they were very favourable. Just by looking at the cover I should have known better. Mark Knightley – handsome, clever, rich – is used to women falling at his feet. Except Emma Woodhouse, who’s like part of the family […]
Posted in Continuations, Dreadful on Nov 17th, 2008
What can I say? If you think about this and Pride and Prejudice as being completely independent – different characters with the same name etc, then you might just like it. If you can’t do that, then you will hate it (and rightly so – Darcy does not have a hired thug who does his dirty […]
Posted in Dreadful, Re-Interpretation on Aug 27th, 2007
This novel was dreadful! If you enjoy Jane Austen novels, then avoid this like the plague! This review is going to be short because I don’t want to waste any more time on this book. The relationship between the heroine and hero followed that of Elizabeth and Darcy quite nicely, if somewhat obviously, but the […]